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By Mikita Brottman



The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison


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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.




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A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. She assigns them ten da...

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